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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
Certainly some piracy is going on: but nothing like what happened in the music industry when CDs came out. The difference was that everyone who had a CD basically had easy access to tools to share the CD they'd bought.
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Are you referring to recording to tape? Because CD-burners didn't really become mainstream until the mid-late 90's, especially not to consumers.
As for sharing across the net, it wasn't until the late 90's that mp3's became a viable option with machines finally being sufficiently fast to play them (without choking down the whole system), let alone having a fast enough internet [outside of the US/Japan].
If we say 1998 was the 'piracy turning point' that really gave CD's about 12~15 years of a market with very little piracy.
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